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Medline today celebrated the opening of its 800,000-square-foot LEED-certified distribution center in St. Peters, Missouri. Governor Michael L. Parson joined leaders from St. Charles County and the City of St. Peters, as well as Medline team members during a ribbon-cutting event at the distribution center located at 5000 Premier Parkway. Representatives

In 1993, the Economic Development Council (EDC) of St. Charles County opened a 30,000 SF small business incubator to provide an affordable location for businesses to start and grow. Demand for space was so great that just two years later, the facility doubled in size to 60,000 SF. Since that time, the incubator has played an integral role in the regional

BayoTech is building 50 "Hydrogen Hubs" across the US and UK, and the first one will be in St. Charles County on the campus of Ranken Technical College in Wentzville. Hydrogen Hubs are small, localized production plants designed to produce hydrogen faster and cheaper than larger-scale facilities. Rather than making large quantities of hydrogen at one

NorthPoint Development has broken ground on a new master-planned industrial park in the Lakeside Logistics Center in St. Peters. The completed development will include five buildings totaling ±1.6 million SF across 190 acres. The largest building in the development will be nearly 500,000 SF. Grading for that building is scheduled to start this

EDC President & CEO Scott Drachnik recently sat down with Thomas Wilmer, host of the award-winning NPR podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer, to talk about St. Charles County's rich vinicultural history. Most people don't realize St. Charles County was the first recognized American Vinicultural Area (AVA) in the US and was the largest wine

Excerpt via Travel + Leisure Oenophiles looking for an under-the-radar wine region may want to consider the Midwest — particularly, Augusta, Missouri, about an hour west of St. Louis. I recently visited this hidden gem of a destination during its annual Augusta Harvest Festival, and it surprised me from the start. During my first night, I attended the

Piston Automotive, the world's largest automotive assembly supplier, has chosen St. Charles County for its newest facility. In late 2022, the Detroit-based manufacturer will open a $10 million facility in Wentzville that is projected to create over 200 new jobs. Piston recently won a contract from General Motors to assemble a wide variety of parts for

DynaFlex, one of the nation's leading manufacturers of dental and orthodontic appliances, recently selected the City of O'Fallon for its new corporate headquarters. The company's new 70,000 SF high-tech manufacturing facility occupies a seven-acre campus in O'Fallon's High-Tech Corridor District. In a recent company presentation, DynaFlex Chief Executive

VSM Abrasives Corporation is growing in St. CharlesCounty - again! The US subsidiary of a German abrasives manufacturer has broken ground on a $6 million, 50,000 SF expansion of its O'Fallon location. VSM previously expanded in O'Fallon in 2019. Company President Brent Barton said the expansion would increase overall production capabilities by allowing

EPC Inc., an IT asset disposal and recycling company, recently announced plans to open a new 47,000 square-foot technology and redeployment facility in St. Peters, Missouri. The new facility is expected to create more than 60 new jobs in the region. “As we continue to see supply chains hampered by the pandemic, especially for new technologies, we

Developer CRG is building a mid-rise apartment complex in the Streets of St. Charles as part of its $1 billion nationwide multifamily investment plan that will build apartments for middle- to upper-income professionals in high-growth markets. The building, to be called Chapter at The Streets, will consist of 245 units on a 2.2-acre site at 333 Mulholland

Less than three years after breaking ground on its first Missouri fulfillment center in St. Peters, Amazon is St. Charles County's largest employer. When the St. Peters fulfillment center was announced in 2018, the retail giant expected to hire around 1,500 workers. Today the St. Peters location is over 6,000 employees strong and growing. Local officials